Purcell Auctioneers: Superb July 2026 Book Auction of c.580 Lots to include an Important Manuscript Book of Early Gaelic, Irish History Covering the 12th to the 21st Centuries, 1,000's of Vintage Irish Postcards etc. etc., 71526, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 517 | Hicks David; Blake Tarquin | Irish Country Houses; Abonded Mansions of Ireland II |
2012 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 518 | Christie Agatha | Agatha Christie Novels |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 519 | Burke Edmund | The Writings and Speeches of the Right Honourable EDMUND BURKE |
USA | 1901 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 520 | Squire Charles; Moncrieff A R Hope | N Books, including: Celtic Myth And Legend |
c. 1920 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 521 | Scott Walter | Waverley Novels |
N/A | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 522 | Sheehan Canon | Works of Canon Sheehan |
Dublin | N/A | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 523 | Reimagining Ireland |
N/A | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 524 | Studia Hibernica |
Dublin; Liverpool | 1961-2024 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 525 | Journal of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland |
1974-2024 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | ||
| 526 | Bulwer Henry Lytton; Crewe Marquess; Rosebery Lord; Reilly | N Books, including: The Life of Viscount Palmerston |
1870; 1931; 1918; 1979 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 527 | Biographies and Commentaries of and on British Politicians |
N/A | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 528 | Irish Music Books |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 529 | Irish Biography Books |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 530 | James P.D.; French Tana; Hewson David; Walsh Louise; Slaughter Karin; Cormican Brendan; McGilloway Brian; Summerscale Kate; Watson S.J.; Harris Jane | Devices and Desires; THE SECRET PLACE; THE KILLING; THE BULLET TRICK; Like A Charm; Mozart's death; Little Girl Lost; The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher; Second Life; The Observations |
1989; 2014; 2012; 2006; 2004; 1991; 2011; 2009; 2013; 2006 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 531 | Harris Nathaniel; Connolly Sybil; MacDonnell Randal; Doogue Declan; Krieger Carsten; Lyons F.S.L. | Undiscovered Ireland; Heritage of Ireland; In An Irish House; The Lost Houses of Ireland; The Wild Flowers of Ireland; Bicentenary Essays Bank of Ireland |
2013; 1998; 2010; 1983 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 532 | The Irish Genealogist |
N/A | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Unknown | ||
| 533 | McAuliffe Bridget; O'Shea Owen; Tobin Fergal | N Books, including: Kerry 1916- Histories and Legacies of the Easter Rising |
2013 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 534 | Hemingway Ernest | Ernest Hemingway Collection |
N/A | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 535 | Le Fanu; Gregory | Irish History Books |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 536 | Doyle Roddy; Carson Ciaran; Ellmann Richard; Collis Marice | The Van; The Star Factory; Oscar Wilde; Somerville & Ross |
1991; 1997; 1987; 1968 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 537 | Dwyer T. Ryle; Horgan John; Findlater Alex; Jones Maxine; Munter Robert | Short Fellow; Sean Lemass; Findlater; Successful Irish Business Women; A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland |
1999; 1997; 2001; 1992; 1988 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 538 | Irish Interest Books |
N/A | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 539 | Irish Interest Books |
circa 50 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | ||
| 540 | Doyle Roddy; McGahern; Joyce | Irish Literature Books |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 541 | Gonne; Yeats; Tone Wolfe | Irish Interest Publications |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
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